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this time of year many of us get out the good stuff...show us your favorites and your patterns! my Mom collected this antique meissen china all her life and it is now a family heirloom only brought out at Christmas.

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Gorgeous pattern! The pattern is similar to what my father's urn looked like, and it is also the pattern I would like on my own urn one day. I love that blue and white china-look pattern -- even though, there are all different ones. I'm sure you know what I mean.

thankyou...it's called blue onion, and although it has been widely imitated, the only real meissen has crossed swords on the back. She perused antique shops throughout europe for 40 years for her collection.

i got an eight-place setting of this at a mikasa outlet at a very inexpensive price off-season...

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Mine is very plain, Tahoe it's called my auntie started it for me when I was like 12

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i want to see everyone's table settings!! it's fun and interesting

lady cop wrote: i want to see everyone's table settings!! it's fun and interesting


I agree, great idea.

Here's my mom's, which will someday be mine....

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oh how pretty Val!

here is fars

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anyone else? let's see your dishes! this is my tea service pattern, royal doulton albert roses.

Oh, I really like that. How great to have a tea set, too.



I will try to get a pic up of my china. It's just a set I bought for myself

(got silverplate, too) when I thought I was NEVER going to get married!!



When I inherit my mom's I think I will pass mine on... I have a REALLY

sweet niece I'd like to give it to.



:-6

The jug below was given to me by my husbands Nan. The figures on the jug are William1V and his wife Adelaide. He was king from 1830 to 1837 ...he was suceeded by Queen Victoria, his niece, as he didn't have any children.

Nan used to put flowers in the jug...I don't think she realised just how old it was

Bez i love that! very elegant

I used to collect jugs, particularly cream jugs. I have given most of them away but I really love this one...it's 'slip ware' I think.



I also like commemorative stuff....royal collectibles...I have an interesting victorian teapot that is black. Apparently it is a 'mourning teapot' and was bought out at funerals.



Talking about collectables, I have an old 1920s Engineers tool box made from wood. It is a real piece of craftwork compared to the plastic and metal ones used nowadays. Anyway..it is full of all sorts of small antique items that I have collected over the years...I'll see if I can take a photo. My grandchildren are always fascinated by the contents....glove stretchers, fans, tiny ornate sewing scissors, a tiny dictionary as small as a box of matches...

i buy bits and pieces of china that appeal to me, so i have rather an eclectic mix..this is lenox colonial tradewinds, i have a few pieces because i liked the Brit/tropical connection. i swear i see some china as art.~~~~~~~~~~

lady cop wrote: i buy bits and pieces of china that appeal to me, so i have rather an eclectic mix..this is lenox colonial tradewinds, i have a few pieces because i liked the Brit/tropical connection. i swear i see some china as art.~~~~~~~~~~


I think it IS an art form. Some of the Oriental plates, bowls etc are beautiful.

Bez when i come over there we shall have to go to antique shops! i will have to rob a bank of course. :rolleyes:

lady cop wrote: Bez when i come over there we shall have to go to antique shops! i will have to rob a bank of course. :rolleyes:


I'm quite happy to browse....there's an old town called Arundel in sussex that is just Antique shops and tea rooms. There is a lovely castle a small Cathedral and you can take a walk by the river...it's lovely...just a bit touristy in the height of the season.

lovely Bez, i would thoroughly enjoy it!

Ahhh such lovely "look and don't touch" things you ladies have. Sigh. I am envious.

minks wrote: Ahhh such lovely "look and don't touch" things you ladies have. Sigh. I am envious.


Exactly the reason I've shared them round the family....too much dusting. I've just kept the real treasured things....for now anyway

I bought a set of china from a door-to-door salesperson when I graduated. They've been in my mom's attic for the 20 odd years since! I even forget what they actually look like!! I'd love to someday get a hutch to display them. I live in an apartment with little storage room right now & don't want anything to happen to them.

Far Rider wrote: I already have the mugs!






Very nice Far...just right for the Christmas Cocoa

Bez wrote: Very nice Far...just right for the Christmas Cocoa


or hot mulled wine, or cider.

Bez wrote: Exactly the reason I've shared them round the family....too much dusting. I've just kept the real treasured things....for now anyway


Jr Minks was such a pain in the arse as a youngster so no knick knacks in my house.

Here's some of my china.

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Here's a demitasse set my m-i-l gave me.

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Another from the set.

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Sorry about the pics being sort of "slid" to the side, my DH informs me

I should use the display screen and NOT the view finder!:o



My china has a very pretty pheasant towards the bottom that doesn't

really show in the pic. Service for 12, not the greatest in the world but

serviceable... with a few serving pieces like cake plate, coffee pot,

etc.



:-6

your roses remind me of the royal albert, and your demitasse etc. are lovely!! Anastrophe has excellent taste in china (as well as ladies!) ....very pretty with the birds.

i am beginning to realize i have waaaaaay too much china! i have a few pieces of this for dessert, johnson brothers old britain castles, you can get it in pink or blue.

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get the good dishes out again!

my china is called royal hunt. i also have a complete set my dad bought my mom in 1960 . it is white with a rose bud on the lip of the plates. i am saving it to pass on to my daughter.

I have this set. It was my great grandmothers. However I don't have the glasses. She bought all the pieces seperatly at the local grocery store. She bought enough to serve 16 people.

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Ive got some fancy stuff we got as a wedding present, its in a box in the attic, always been scared to bloody use it